I'm using SharpMap 2.0, and I'm successfully loading a shapefile and parsing through it. The particular shape file that I'm working with has about 700 polygons in it, and each of those polygons has meta data associated with it (the meta data is in the .DBF file).

How can I get at the meta data for each polygon? I'm not seeing any methods that allow access to this data...

I've searched Google, these forums and have pretty much exhausted my resources trying to figure this one out.

If I understand your question you may not be looking fo rmetadata but attribute data. I am not familiar with sharpmap. but the data in the dbf is the attribute infomration. the oid is associated with each object and relates it to the shape , and the index (if it exists). In my software I simply select the layer name a right click to open attribute table I know in qgis it is a simiar process. The relationship is already established. Am I off base?